robber
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She also analyzed just how rich the robber barons of "The Gilded Age" are.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
The robber clique turns out to have its own bosses, too, as well as the most visible fractures in their unit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026
In 2007, he was given a police award for bravery after tackling a robber who was attacking a delivery man with a baseball bat.
From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2026
This was the age of robber barons like John D. Rockefeller, whose Standard Oil was a business “trust” comprising dozens of companies in numerous vertically linked industries.
From Barron's ● Jan. 13, 2026
“You look like a bank robber, man,” I said to him.
From "Slam!" by Walter Dean Myers
It’s a case about how cops use peoples’ private digital data to catch robbers.
From Slate ● Jul. 1, 2026
Not even a leaping Mullins, one of baseball’s veteran home-run robbers, could stop Freddie Freeman from doing what the Dodgers first baseman does best: hitting clutch home runs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
Rather than putting out a dry statement promising to cooperate with the authorities, five employees crafted a jokey response saying the robbers had taken KitKat’s “have a break” slogan a little too literally.
From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026
Until then, we’ll have to endure him playing a few more rounds of cops and robbers.
From Salon ● May 27, 2026
He thought of her only as the person win had robbed him, and, since robbers are deceitful, designing, and heartless people, he thought of her as-these.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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